Conference on the Political
Economy of International Finance (PEIF)
12 March 2004
Sponsored by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
(IGCC)
Background
Agenda with links to conference papers
Participant
list
Background
The UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation hosted the
fourth meeting of a research group on the Political Economy of International
Finance
(PEIF) at UC San Diego.
The
meeting
brought together current research on the political economy of international
finance. The 2004 conference was devoted to scholarship on the economics
and politics of international monetary and financial arrangements.
Papers presented at
the conference included:
"Why Do Countries Peg the Way They Peg? The Determinants
of Anchor Currency Choice"
Christopher M. Meissner, University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics
and Politics
Nienke Oomes, International Monetary Fund
"Conditional Lending Under Altruism"
Alex Mourmouras, Deputy Division Chief, IMF Institute
Peter Rangazas, Professor of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue
University
in Indianapolis
"Voter Sophistication and
Domestic Preferences Regarding Debt Default"
Michael Tomz, Stanford University
"Politically Induced Abnormal Returns: How and
Why Politics Move Financial Markets"
William Bernhard, Political Science, University
of Illinois, and David Leblang, Political Science, University of
Colorado
Previous Meetings
The links below will take you to the web sites of the three previous PEIF
conferences:
PEIF
1. UC Berkeley, February 25, 2000
PEIF
2. Harvard University, October 27, 2000
PEIF 3. Georgetown
University, October 24–25, 2002
Organizing Committee
J. Lawrence Broz (UC San Diego)
Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
Jeffry Frieden (Harvard University)
Carl Walsh (UC Santa Cruz)
Jeromin Zettelmeyer (IMF)
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